Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Colin Smale
Hi Sarah, Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your assertion that the Regions at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that many people talk about geographical regions like "the South-East" or "the North-West". But these are ill-defined vernacular

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Colin Smale
I think I replied privately by mistake, so copying to the list now... On 2020-07-28 11:45, Ed Loach wrote: > Colin wrote: > >> Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your >> assertion that the Regions >> at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-07-28 14:41, Dan Glover wrote: > Other observations, if I may? > > Levels 4 and 6 give UK-wide coverage and level has complete coverage of > England. The Combined Authorities are relatively sparse in their coverage (by > area - by population is a different matter) so there would be

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Ed Loach
Colin wrote: > Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your assertion > that the Regions > at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that many people > talk about > geographical regions like "the South-East" or "the North-West". But these are >

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-07-28 11:45, Ed Loach wrote: > Colin wrote: > >> Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your >> assertion that the Regions >> at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that many >> people talk about >> geographical regions like "the

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
Hi, I'm the one who caused this discussion by editing West Yorkshire. I was looking into admin boundaries for Nominatim (the search engine) who uses them to determine the place description or address of a place. As part of this I had noticed a hole in the admin level 6 coverage and 'fixed' it. I